Post Featured Video is a very nifty responsive video plugin that helps your users to see a YouTube or Vimeo video or Custom HTML MP4 video
As of April 2026, Post Featured Video is a WordPress video popup plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 17K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Downloads are up 21% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Video PopUp.
Post Featured Video is a very nifty responsive video plugin that helps your users to see a YouTube or Vimeo video or Custom HTML MP4 video instead of the featured image on the blog and blog detail page.
Add the URL of YouTube or Vimeo in the specific field or upload video in the backend of the post/page and your user will have the pleasure to watch video in place of featured image.
Post Featured video plugin is highly customizable. You can display video in lightbox, enable autoplay video, enable display mode ie. youtube, Vimeo or upload MP4 video. It can replace the post featured image with a video.
This plugin provides the following features:
* Option for enables/disable video for post types.
* Autoplay Video
* Enable/disable popup/lightbox for video
* Display mo…
Doesn’t really work with no other plugins. Couldn’t find any option where to add a video. Latest WordPress.
I am so happy with this plugin. Within the first few minutes I had it configured and some of the settings I even left blank. Yes you have to create a featured image (I used a screenshot) so that the video can be placed properly, but I don’t mind. That way I can choose the image I want to display instead of using the default from Youtube or Vimeo. I use WP bakery page builder on my site and no issue at all. THANK YOU so very much
Doesn’t work with Elementor post widget
I went through all of the settings, and it definitely does not work with Elementor. I didn’t try with any other installations, so I’m not sure if it works with anything else. The plugin is also not updated often.
Does what it says. I thought it won’t work because I have my own thumbnail function which is able to add aspect ratios and stuff but it just does.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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